Why, yes I was, as a matter of fact. WebDesignerMag also points to Sublime Text as their first choice for serious text editing. They also mention WebStorm and RubyMine, IDEs for Javascript and Ruby from JetBrains.

One tool I found particularly interesting was Radiant CMS, a Ruby-based Content Management System. I’ve been studying Ruby since January of this year (ever since the place where I work adopted it as an alternative to an ancient scripting language that hasn’t been updated since about 1998). A few days ago, I looked up Ruby blogging and CMS software as a possible alternative to WordPress, and I saw Radiant mentioned then. I wasn’t sure the package really had “legs”, but it looks like I’m going to have to check it out.

For the past year, I’ve let this blog go while working as a Toastmasters Area Governor. Actually, I let the blog go before that – but I certainly didn’t take time to bring it up to date since I got the Area Governor post last August.

I’m wrapping up my first year as an Area Governor, and signed up for a second year – but now that I know what to expect from that, I can devote some time and attention to other things.

Unfortunately for me, the blog software I was using (BlogEngine 2.5) crashed, and I’ve been unable to restore the blog on its original hosting. I’m going to have to bring it back online by copying the text from an XML dump, which will take some time. But the Monkey will be back up as soon as I can manage – and I’m going forward with new posts as well.